Her name was Hatshepsut, and while the achievements of her 21 years in power place her among Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, a brutal censorship campaign resulted in al ...

Hatshepsut’s vast mortuary temple was considered one of the most impressive architectural achievements in the ancient world. Named Djeser-Djeseru (“holy of holies”), the terraced sandstone ...

Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh of Egypt. She reigned between 1473 and 1458 B.C. Her name means “foremost of noblewomen.” Her rule was relatively peaceful and she was able to launch a building ...

Hatshepsut, known by her royal Horus name Ma’at-ka-re, which translates to “Goddess of Truth is the life force of the Sun God,” was born in 1507 BCE as the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I and his first ...

In addition, she worked on two Discovery Channel documentary series: “Out of Egypt,” which first aired in 2009, and “Egypt’s Lost Queen,” a 2006 profile of Hatshepsut. For the first biography of ...

Hatshepsut, now queen of Egypt, bore her husband/brother a daughter, Princess Neferure, but no son. When Tuthmosis II died suddenly, after a mere three years on the throne, a dynastic crisis ...

Today, evidence of Hatshepsut’s achievements can still be seen from Nubia to Beni Hasan.In Thebes, she erected towering obelisks and built roads in honor of Amun, king of the gods and patron of ...

Hatshepsut’s temple also featured a series of reliefs marking the achievements of her reign, including a storied trading expedition to the mysterious and distant land called Punt, believed to be ...

We hear Hatshepsut speak in The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, a new biography by Kara Cooney. October also brings Isabella: The Warrior Queen, by Kirstin ...